Membership

"The new member packet is one of the most important touches an association has with its members... do you even know the last time the packet was reviewed? In the packets I received, it was very clear which associations were eager to get me involved and which ones were just mailing it in."

Volunteers

Good news for associations and nonprofits: volunteering is alive and well in the US. But there's one other message: volunteerism is triggered by the need to be needed. "And that's a message that we don't listen to nearly enough."

Fun

"I have no specific credentials to write about social media, but I did some Google searches 30 minutes ago and now I’m calling myself an expert. Since social media is new, you’ll have a hard time refuting that claim....Let me start by plagiarizing Wikipedia’s definition of social‐media because I’m too lazy to paraphrase it or actually read it..."

Technology

The Complete Guide to Google Wave is an unofficial user manual for Google Wave, "launched October 31st, 2009, exactly one month after the Google Wave preview became available to a limited number of users. At launch, the guide contained eight fully-written chapters and two appendices (about 90 pages printed)....

In the spirit of Google Wave, this guide is a collaborative
effort. We need you (yes, you) to help revise and expand this guide as
Wave evolves."

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